Re: nettime: NSF yanks Iran's Internet connection, from HotWired

[John Perry Barlow <barlow@eff.org>]

At 1:11 AM -0400 8/29/96, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
>To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
>Subject: NSF yanks Iran's Internet connection, from HotWired
>
>Attached is my column on the NSF and Iran. After I filed it, I received an
>unconfirmed note from the NSF saying that they removed the restriction in
>response to my calls earlier today. I'll verify tomorrow.



Way to go, Declan!

How did you find about about this outrage?

Yrs,

John Perry




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